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YoshidaYui

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Tue Jun 1, 2021, 11:43 PM Jun 2021

If UFOs are aliens, Obama hopes humanity would find 'common' ground

Former U.S. president Barack Obama doesn’t claim to know the origins of the unidentified flying objects that have been spotted by American military personnel — but if they are from another planet, he’d like to think that knowledge would unite humanity, rather than tear us apart.


Obama opened up about the long-shot possibility that UFOs could lead to proof of aliens this week, in a new podcast interview with New York Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein.

It was the former president’s second time speaking about UFOs in recent weeks, ahead of a highly anticipated intelligence report to Congress on so-called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) later this month.

In the latest interview, Obama was asked about a hypothetical situation in which the UFOs are proven to be remote drones sent by aliens. In that purely “what if” scenario, humans would only know that aliens exist, but would not be able to contact them.

Obama said such a revelation would not change his approach to politics, “because my entire politics is premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this little speck floating out in space.”

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If UFOs are aliens, Obama hopes humanity would find 'common' ground (Original Post) YoshidaYui Jun 2021 OP
Horton Hears a Who. WheelWalker Jun 2021 #1
Second time he has talked about UFOs recently. Irish_Dem Jun 2021 #2
Probably because he's being asked about it.. Callado119 Jun 2021 #3
Yes, but I assumed he would laugh off the question and not say anything. Irish_Dem Jun 2021 #4

Irish_Dem

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2. Second time he has talked about UFOs recently.
Tue Jun 1, 2021, 11:56 PM
Jun 2021

So odd for Obama to do this. Seems out of character for him.

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